ForImmediate Release
Contact:
City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com
CityArt Presents Jacqueline Osherow and Connie Voisine
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday February 28th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Poets Jacqueline Osherow and ConnieVoisine will present their work on February28th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City ArtReading Series.
Poet Connie Voisine grew up in Maine andearned a BA in American studies from Yale University. She lived in New YorkCity, studying writing at the New School and the Writers Studio, before earningher MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and PhD from the Universityof Utah. Her first collection, Cathedral of the North (2001),won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award Series in Poetry,and her second, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream (2008),was a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist. Deploying akind of lyric narrative, Voisine’s poems frequently feature speakers as theyencounter contemporary culture in a variety of locations—including the AmericanSouthwest and Mexico. Rare High Meadow of Which IMight Dream was also influenced by medieval literature and thepoetry of Marie de France. Voisine lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where sheis an associate professor of English at New Mexico State University and adirector of La Sociedad para las Artes.
Jacqueline Osherow’s most recent book is Ultimatum from Paradise (LSU Press,2014). She is currently working on MyLookalike at the Krishna Temple. She is also the author of Dead Men’s Praise, Hoopoe’s Crown, and Lookingfor Angels in New York among other collections. Osherow has received grants from the JohnSimon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the NEAand the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the American Academy and Institute ofArts and Letters. She is Distinguished Professor of English and CreativeWriting at the University of Utah.
City Artis longest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers.
Mostfeatured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by theUtah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund.
Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations.
Joel Long
